For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration
Curated by Julian MacKenzie and Lucinda Boyle, our travel and exploration collection encourages you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own home. Their selections offer an unparalleled escape into the world of adventure, making perfect gifts for the travel-hungry soul or the history enthusiast.
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Young Women in Nigeria.
HOPPE, Emil Otto.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00"It is the pride of the young women of the Ibos in Nigeria to wear their legs encased in brass wire, which is wielded and arranged spiral fashion...
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Head Lines. Nubia.
HOPPE, Emil Otto.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00"A charming Nubian woman who affects a most original form of the fringe... it is made of tiny butter plaits" (description on reverse). Gelatine si...
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Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.
PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £250.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The author, the British vice-consul at Kertch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains ...
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Australia.
CASTELL BROTHERS.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £1,000.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...
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A Papua Girl. New Guinea.
HOPPE, Emil OttoOriginal price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00"A Papua Girl carrying poinciana [?] with frangipani in her hair" [manuscript note on reverse]. Gelatine silver print (15 x 11 cm). Photographer's...
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The West Front of St. Paul's Covent Garden.
SANDBY, Paul, ROOKER, Edward.Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £550.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00The fifth of Edward Rookers 'Six Views of London', based on a drawing by Paul Sandby. A child's funeral is about to take place, the mourners are d...
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Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon;
LAYARD, Austen Henry.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £1,100.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discov...
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Album of Turkish Watercolours
CARDERO (Jose).Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £50,000.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00A splendid album, signed and dated by the artist, with original artwork, and historically significant. Joseph Cardero made the album during his st...
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Journal of an expedition
LANDER, Richard and JohnOriginal price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger.Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on h...
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Panama.
LEBLANC, William.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Fine lithographic view over Panama City, taken from Ancon Hill, at 200 metres the highest natural point in the country. The almost bird's-eye view...
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General view of Havana.
LAPLANTE, Edouardo (lithographer).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00A large and decorative view of the city of Havana from the sea, showing ships at harbour in the foreground, the dock and city beyond. The lighthou...
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Autograph letter, signed, to J. N. Whitaker
LIVINGSTONE, David.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00A fine letter providing technical advice, written towards the end of Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition. At the time of writing, Livingstone was wai...
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The story of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa,
ROWLEY, Henry.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...
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Travels in Western Africa,
GRAY, Major WilliamOriginal price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Gray's expedition followed the disastrous missions of Major Peddie (who died of fever) and Captain Campbell (who also died on his arrival at the c...
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Six months' service in the African blockade, from April to October 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta.
FORBES, Frederick Edwyn.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Scarce. Important first hand work on the Slave Trade at the time of Sierra Leone and Liberia signing the Anti-Slavery Trade Treaty.First edition. ...
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